Slain cop's colleagues overcome with emotion at wake
Photo credit: Photo by Patrick Andrade | Onlookers watch a march through Harlem, where the Rev. Al Sharpton, community leaders and about a hundred supporters rallied and called for an investigation into the fatal shooting of NYPD Officer Omar Edwards.
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Officers who wouldn't flinch when facing down New York City's most ferocious criminals wept into handkerchiefs like young boys Tuesday as they stood over an open casket and looked at the calm countenance of one of their own fallen brethren.
Women wailed after filing past the coffin bearing the body of Omar Edwards, 25, who was shot by one of his own Thursday night as he tried to catch a man he thought was breaking into his car on a Harlem street.
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At the Lawrence H. Woodward Funeral Home in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant section, people lined up to pay their respects to Edwards at his wake, a husband and father of two young boys, who was shot to death after finishing his shift. Edwards' widow, Danielle, received hugs and condolences. She sat in the third row holding her older child, 18-month-old Xavier.
Burly football players who shared victories and defeats on the gridiron with Edwards, who either played or became his team's biggest cheerleader when he couldn't, stopped by the funeral home wearing their game jerseys.
The word "Finest" was emblazoned across their jerseys. Near the coffin sat the 3-foot trophy the NYPD team had won last weekend in a hard-fought game they played against city firefighters.
With staff writer Zachary R. Dowdy
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